Panel Discussion

What is our foreign policy? What do we want to happen in the world? Do we want to kick butt or disengage? Build democracies or kill terrorists? Return to isolationism or lead?

The first thing I would do is get America out of the United Nations. We need a new confederacy of nations based on shared ideals of freedom, democracy and real capitalism. Capitalism based in local communities, with local investment reflecting an economy built from the bottom up — not the top down. A capitalist system tethered to Christian values, not greed. An economic formula geared to put every American to work and to cut government down to its true core value of arbitrator — not dictator — to level the playing field for every American citizen to aspire to their potential. The rest is up to you.

How does that tie with foreign policy? Everything — to lead you need resources, lots, not debt. You get out of debt by building and buying your own stuff — American stuff.

Ed Hansen

Manitowoc

Obama’s lies raise eyebrows

A renowned journalist has published a report that calls into question the Obama administration’s account of how Osama Bin Laden was found and killed.

Was he hiding in plain sight or was he housed by the Afghanistan government? Was he found by tracking his driver or betrayed by an Afghanistan government official? Was there a fire fight at his compound, or not? Was he buried at sea or in Afghanistan?

Given the Obama administration’s propensity to lie and obfuscate — Obamacare, IRS, Benghazi, Fast and Furious, etc. — it is easy to see why an alternate version would gain traction. Time will tell as the debacle continues.